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The pots on a St Kilda mansion or terrace stack are the first thing the bay reaches, and in a converted building most of them are open over flues nobody uses. FreshDuct caps and guards the whole stack in stainless, fitted from the roof and photographed for every owner.
Rusted caps on a shared St Kilda stack? One visit can cap every pot in stainless, with a photo for each flat.
A stack on a converted St Kilda mansion might carry several pots, of which one or two still serve a live fireplace. The rest sit open or under caps that were galvanised and are now rust, and each open pot is a rain channel and a nesting site over a flue that runs down into a flat whose owner has no idea it is there. Because the stack is shared, no one flat has had a reason to deal with all of it.
So our approach in St Kilda is to treat the stack as one job. From the roof we identify which pots are live and which are dead, fit stainless caps with bird guards on the live ones and stainless vented caps on the dead ones, and fix everything with fasteners that will not rust in the sea air. Each pot is photographed, so every flat in the building can see what sits on top of its flue.
If yours is the flat with the working fireplace, we look after the draw as well. A tall flue on a terrace near the foreshore can smoke back when the wind swings onshore, and a stainless anti-downdraught cowl on your pot, tested with the fire lit, usually settles it. We also make sure the caps on the dead flues around yours are vented, because sealing a shared stack tight can push damp into the flats below.
Stainless caps, vented caps, bird guards and anti-downdraught cowls for every pot on a shared St Kilda stack, fitted from the roof and photographed per flue.
The bay takes a galvanised cap on a St Kilda pot in a few winters and leaves the flue open again. We fit stainless caps and cowls with stainless fixings, because on a tall shared stack nobody wants to go back up for a cap that has rusted off.
In a converted St Kilda building the open pot above your roof may lead to a flue in a flat two floors down. A vented cap keeps rain and birds out of it and lets the brickwork breathe, and we cap the dead pots alongside the live one.
A bird nest in the pot of a tall St Kilda flue is the hardest blockage to clear, because it sits at the top of a long run. A mesh guard on the pot stops the nest being built, which is far simpler than clearing one from the roof.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Sending someone up a tall St Kilda stack for one cap at a time makes no sense. We measure every pot, quote the stack as a whole with each flue itemised, and fit the lot in one go with harness work or scaffold as the height demands.
The photos come back labelled by pot, so each owner can see the cap over their own flue and the building has a record of the whole stack for whenever it next changes hands.
Documented end to end — every job, every suburb.
Flue size, terminal type and roof access checked.
The right cap or cowl for the appliance and the problem.
Firm price before any work.
Fixed and sealed from the roof, safely.
Draw checked with the cap on.
A photo of the finished cap from the roof.
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Yes, and it is the sensible way to do a tall shared stack. We measure each pot, identify which flues are live, fit stainless caps or cowls on those and vented stainless caps on the dead ones, and photograph each one so every owner can see their flue is covered.
Because they are galvanised steel in sea air. Near the bay a galvanised cap and its screws corrode long before the same cap would inland. A stainless cap with stainless fixings costs a little more and stays up, which matters on a stack nobody wants to climb twice.
An open flue lets rain, leaves and birds straight in. A cap keeps the flue dry, keeps nests out and, on a wood heater, a spark arrestor stops embers leaving the flue.
Usually a downdraught — wind pushing back down the flue. An anti-downdraught cowl is the normal fix; we confirm the draw with a test before and after.
Yes. If we are on the roof for a sweep and the flue needs a cap, we can quote it on the spot and fit it the same visit where we have the right size.
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